Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (Jack Miller Landing)

What moves on this waterway is mostly petroleum and chemicals. The Gulf Intracoastal Waterway was completed on June 18, 1949, and runs about 1,300 miles from St. Marks, Florida to Brownsville, Texas at a controlling depth of 12 feet. In 2018 it carried 112 million tons of cargo worth $90 billion, including 69 million tons of petroleum products and 23 million tons of chemicals. By tonnage it ranks third among American waterways, behind the Mississippi and the Ohio, and it is designed mainly for barges.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Old State Capitol — 18 mi
  James Dakin's 1850 Gothic castle on the river bluff, gutted in the Civil War, nearly demolished in 1991 and reopened in 1994 as a free museum of political history.
• LSU Rural Life Museum — 18 mi
  Four slave cabins moved from Welham Plantation and a working-plantation row of more than twenty saved buildings, on land the Burden family held as Windrush plantation since the 1830s.
• Capitol Park Museum — 18 mi
  The Louisiana State Museum in Baton Rouge: a shrimp trawler and a Civil War submarine, galleries on the slave market, resistance and Jim Crow, and the music from Armstrong to Chenier.
• Louisiana State Capitol — 18 mi
  A 450-foot Art Deco tower Huey Long pushed through in 1930, finished in 14 months, and the hallway where he was shot in 1935; free to enter and ringed by 27 acres of grounds.

More markers nearby

• Bayou Sorrel Indian Mound — 4.1 mi
• Bayou Plaquemine (Bayou Road) — 5.0 mi
• Bayou Plaquemine — 7.0 mi
• Old City Hall — 7.1 mi